A three-man team opened fire near the building housing Israel’s consulate in Istanbul, prompting a roughly 10-minute gun battle that left one attacker dead, two captured, and two police wounded, with officials probing possible jihadist links while noting the consulate was unstaffed.

The AlSaqri Foundation's Explosives_Basics.pdf was distributed on TechHaven on 28 March 2026; a separate catalog of PETN, HMTD, Picric Acid, and Nitrocellulose manuals plus a six-volume drone weaponization series is available through a platform intermediary, and a bomb-making solicitation was posted the prior day, collectively indicating TechHaven is functioning as an operational weapons support network.

A man was arrested in Paris after placing an IED at a Bank of America branch; a second suspect fled; France's counter-terrorism prosecutor has jurisdiction, and the attack method is consistent with low-cost directed attack recruitment patterns used by both ISIS and Iran-linked networks.

Triple suicide bombing in Maiduguri on March 17 killed 25, wounded 108, marking Nigeria's deadliest urban attack in seven years. Boko Haram suspected. Separately, Nigerian Army killed 60 ISWAP fighters in multi-site Borno counteroperation on March 18. Dual-track pressure from urban bombing and rural military attacks signals intensified Ramadan campaign.

A former National Guard member with a prior Islamic State-related conviction attacked an ROTC setting at Old Dominion University, killing one and injuring two before ROTC students stopped him, prompting an FBI terrorism investigation into motive, support, and how the suspect re-armed post-release.

A vehicle-ramming attack at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield escalated into a fire and armed confrontation that the FBI framed as targeted anti-Jewish violence; security and staff protected 140 children on site while authorities investigated explosives and unresolved motive details as the suspect died at the scene.